A discovery toward improving memory has been found:
A group of Spanish researchers reported today in Science that they may have stumbled upon a substance that could become the ultimate memory-enhancer. The group was studying a poorly-understood region of the visual cortex. They found that if they boosted production of a protein called RGS-14 (pictured) in that area of the visual cortex in mice, it dramatically affected the animals’ ability to remember objects they had seen.
Memory is an imperfect thing; it is never the same, always constructed differently. Perfect memory isn’t necessarily what we should want to have — some things are meant to be remembered.